Geek in the Park 2008 schedule

Unscheduled

• Pixel Pushing: An Introduction to Icon Design

  by Jon Hicks

  One half of the creative partnership at Hicksdesign, based in Oxfordshire, UK and most widely known for the Firefox, Thunderbird and Miro icons, Jon likes to design for both print and 'new-fangled media' as he calls it. He blogsabout web standards, CSS, browsers and design, and dreams about cheese a lot.

  • Icon Design
  Coverage slide deck

• What Brian Cant Never Taught You About Metadata

  by Drew McLellan

  Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, a strong advocate of best practises, and is currently a Group Lead for the Web Standards Project. He is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement. He blogs at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24ways. Drew has been hacking on the web since around 1996 and since then he's spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now works as a Web Developer for edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK.

  Coverage slide deck